From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality

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    1 year ago

    Our billionaires are not okay. The most obvious example, of course, is Musk, who is having a midlife crisis so unhinged that it would be upsetting if he weren’t such a terrible person. He purchased Twitter for $44 billion last year, out of nothing more than a fit of pique over the company’s efforts to keep the social media app from being too overrun by Nazis. As the company swirls down the toilet under his watch, his public behavior gets ever more erratic. The threat from Threads, a Meta-owned competitor that launched earlier this month, caused Musk, age 52, to react with a level of immaturity that would be cause for alarm in a junior high school kid. He challenged Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a “cage match.” And then again to a “literal dick measuring contest.” He keeps throwing schoolboy insults at Zuckerberg.

    Kinda hilarious and sad at the same time.